Education

About

Before coming to Queen's in 2001, Professor Thompson worked as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Middlebury College, USA. At Queen's, he has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on Golden Age Theater, the Golden Age Interlude, the Picaresque, Cervantes, survey of Peninsular Literature, Spanish Civilization and Culture as well as language acquisition courses, including Beginning Spanish, Intermediate Spanish and Business Spanish.

Professor Peter E. Thompson has written extensively on Juan Rana, the alias of Cosmo Pérez, a popular actor between the years 1617 and 1672 ( Spanish Golden Age). Rana was crowned by Pedro Calderón de la Barca as el máximo gracioso and also became the subject of over fifty short plays during the seventeenth century. Professor Thompson has published various articles on this actor as well as The Triumphant Juan Rana: A Gay Actor in Spanish Golden Age Theater (2006) and The Outrageous Entremeses of Juan Rana: An Annotated and Bilingual Selection of Plays Written for this Spanish Golden Age Actor (2009). He is presently working on a monograph concerning the Spanish Golden Age entremesista Jerónimo Cáncer y Velasco.